Marlette High School - Scribe Yearbook (Marlette, MI)

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H Clothler Sr tackle Big and quiet a tough boy for opposing ends to handle D Smith end a six foot lad whose spec ialty aa snsgg ing passes. B Patrick S Ran from left half where h handled both punting and pass ing duties lads a hard ru ner R Kraft lineman played end, tackle guard. The fifth man in the op ponets back field, he was hard to stop A Smith guard made good in his senior year Plugged the middle of the line D letzer guard a midget ln size but hits like a g ant Alternated quarterback A Jones tackle plugged the left side of the line and played a hard, crashing game H Kitchen serve who was always ready when the chance came H Jittlestat J en tall and lanky he pulls passis out f the skies D Davis fullback at 150 he hits like a 200 pounder hard to stop as B111 Daley g1ves all he has to win H Bentley halfback tholgh not regular he was ready when call ed upon A hard working boy who always gave the best he had K kilson Back called signals and did the blocking Kept opposing teams guessing on offense and backed up fenslve line K wrxght year man who learns fast Played a heady agresslve game at center a 1 halfback ran at the rlght half back post 1 good pa1r of lers made hlm danger ous 1D the open B Davis guard changed from tackle to running guard to fill lc Mann' shoes Gave oppos ing linesmen a tough even1ng . D- Q e -1 sro e sr' -- -- -- al- -- ' ' B 1 . , at ' - , V -- S . . -- sf. - -- Sr. ,, ' '- -- O de- s ' To e --,Jl', C Y' . ' Jre back -- Co-capt. tackle -- a re- center --a first 0 , . 1 I e ' S I Q -- r .1 ,, r 5. C rg l1-- Jr. or d -- , . I - . o . , -- Sr. -- . -- Jr. . -- Sr. . . as . s

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s L to R R Kraft, o Dmlth, K Wxlson, R Patrick, B Davis, D Dav1s, E Cargxll, A Smith 2nd Coach Jensen R Rasmussen, H Bentley, A Jones, K Wright, llttlestat, H Clothier, H Kitchen, D Metzer, J Rice 5rd Wasks, K Sprlngstead, D Donnely B Wood, A Blyle, Alonzo, D Humes O HUtCh1nB 4th Fletcher, R Willlams, J Lester, D Mlller, C Jeroue, Kennedy R Harper FOLTIALL With about forty boys reporting, football practice opened early in Septem ber under the d1F8CtiOH of Coach Ralph Jer en, who be an h1s sixth year as the dlrector of athletlc teams at Marlette We held our practxce sessxons rom 12 50 to 2 30 and then had to h1ke in to our la t hour class Coach did his best to st us in condition as he gave us six or seven laps or a daxly dose f etxff C81i8th6h1C8 along with our block1ng and tackl1ng drxlls We appreciated that, though for we w nt through the entlro season without any ser1ous inglr ies Te changed our style of offense th1s year usxno a s1n le wxng back form atlon wlth a balanced line, shxfted from the ntee , and found that thls worked well w1th the materlal avallatle Then North Branch was beatex 53 7 for the f1FSt conference win and lt looked as if the Ra1ders were off to a hood start Our next game wxth grown City was cancelled due to the death of Co Captaln Jlck McMann but the following week we put tte finishxnb touches on a mamroth bond drlve by trimmxns Yale, 7 O Then Deckerville was the nc: team tc fall victim to our runnlng and passlng attack as Coach used 24 men in cralxinb up a oO 6 win The next week we dldn't look so well as M1111Dgt0D beat us n a olocked punt, l3 19, in the last minute of play On October 26, Cass Clty brought over the1r heavxly favored team we score fxrst and led, 7 6 wxth four mlnutes to go but a c mpleted pass over the goal line for a touchdown spelled our doom The big day, the champxonshlp game w1th Croswell arrived but found wanting as we went down to our thmrd defeat, 6 O fe were fer from tie team we should have been After a much de erved bawling out and a week of hard work we ended the season against Sandusky on Armzstxce Day The f eld was water soaaed and also water covered but we played our Lest Dame of the year ana trcunced the eds, 6-O, for our Y1ftr win That was th Lib est thrlll of the seas r 1 t . '. ' ' . ' . . 0 . I . I l , . . . . H. . . . . . W. . ' . 1 - - J. . , . ' . B. . ' . . ' . D. , . . 1 , . v K V . Q . . . . , . . : : ' 5 . 5, '- 0 . ' , , Q: ' ' ' - ' I . I . P7 . 5 . , , - . . . , . . . . X . We opened our season acainst Peck in a practice game and won easily 3?-6. - ' v' , - L l A . ' ' - . -A H , . . h .- . . A I . '1 - . . . , , l V . . - U - 3 . - , . 1 . , . , . . ' us , . - 0 W A X . - s . ,, ' - : w , ' 4 , L., h .Y 2 K 5 I A Q 1 9 ' Z ' ' P 1

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Record 1 t L to R Coach Jensen, L Wxlcox, B Davis, D Smlth, B Patrick, D Davzs 2nd R Harper R Rasmussen, H littlestat, K Wilson, A Jones V 5'TV W Q rTb5Lu The Marlette Red Raiders care through a tough fourteen game schedule and by virtue as one of gave them Croswell, of winnlng twelve game and loslng two, they establlshed themselves the top notch teame gf the Thumb area Thelr Y1Ct0F188 for the year a co crampxonshlp of the Mzd Thumb League, shar1ng t1e honor wmth to wrom they lost one game The Ralders were ousted from the Dlstrict Tournament at Croswell by losing to their host to the tune of 33 to 27 Marlette Harlette Parlette Marlette Marlette Marlette karlette Marlette Marlette Marlette Varlette Marlette Marlette Marlette Marlette Hayvllle 25 Croswell 22 North Branch 17 Deckervllle 21 Yale 14 Brown Cmty 6 bandusky 23 Peck 24 Croswell 20 North Bra.ch 16 Yale 23 Cass Clty 51 Browr City 19 Crosuell 3' Squad members were D 'Peanuts bmith,center R 'Pat Patrick forward R McNess Harper, forward A 'A1 Jones, guard, R nBob' Davis, guard H Stat Mlttle tat c 'er L nLOFH16 N11 ox, forward R Dicku Davls guard 'Shark vilso , guard R Ras Rasmussen, forward S L . f . ' . ' ARL.. ,:..5'11... ' 31 .... ' 21 .... N 39.... 23 .... ' 16 .... ' 31 .... ' ' 26 .... ' 23 .... Deckerville 18 32 .... 22 .... . 25.... '. 24 .... 23 .... ' 28 .... . ' . 27 .... ' c n vv In .. ' u , I . : n ' n ' s , ent 3 . , .' H N' cl 3 '. W ' , , 3' K Ulu f- ,A v I rv n LJ - .. , , , ., ,